We hope a Alpha 1 will begin 2019.
Noone can really answer that directly at this point somewhere in the next few months we will be doing domain and settlement selection, where we choose where we want to place out titles. During that time we are hoping for an update and bit of a development road map, we'll see.
We are currently in Pre-Alpha stages and the only currently playable content is available to Devs friends and family.
While there isn't currently anything to play publicly available to backers there are still many things that are encouraging the involvement of the community including things such as community building, events/promotions, contests, Surname reservation, discord communities as well as their events pertaining to CoE, and more.
More events that should be available soon getting more people involved would be things like promotions, contests, events such as: Domain and settlement selection, personas, my Akashic records, and various other events. Currently, players are able to lock in their server selection!
There are also coming soon future things to get backers even more involved and hands-on in game including but not limited to: Alphas, Betas, Prelyria, Kingdoms of Elyria, Prologue, stress tests, and Exposition.
If you'd like more information on these events or anything here please feel free to ask!
They say, that they will Launch it in the Second half of 2019. 😏So probably will the Alpha Start in 2019 and the Launch in the second half of 2020
